TL;DR
4 takeawaysMicrosoft Security chief Hayete Gallot says AI agents inside companies are “agentic insiders” that need continuous supervision, and positions Project Perception and Guardian Agents to contain them
Sources: Microsoft
Huntington Bank announces The 1866 Studio, an AI operating system for small businesses built with Google Cloud’s Gemini platform, with early access open from October 19
Sources: HuntingtonGoogle Cloud
Short: Tenstorrent closes a $1.5 billion Series E at a $6.2 billion post-money valuation
Sources: Tenstorrent
Short: MiniMax rolls out M3.1 Flash at $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.60 per million output tokens
Sources: MiniMax
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Microsoft: treat your own AI agents as “agentic insiders”
- What happened
- In a post on the Official Microsoft Blog, Hayete Gallot, Executive Vice President of Microsoft Security, argues that agents deployed inside companies are frequently overprivileged, can act in critical processes, and may not behave as intended even without being compromised. She calls them “agentic insiders” and says monitoring them must become continuous. Microsoft says Project Perception, the agentic security system it announced in July, can discover agents, assign each an identity, container and permissions, compute risk dynamically, and use teams of Guardian Agents to supervise every action in real time.
- Why it matters
- Gallot writes that securing agents requires protection across identity, permissions, data, endpoints, network, cloud and runtime. She also says the next step is greater transparency into models, including their chain-of-thought tokens, so security tools can judge whether an agent’s intent matches its task.
- Enterprise impact
- Inventory the agents already running in your organization, give each its own identity and least-privilege permissions, and log their actions so incidents can be traced.
- Startup impact
- Agent governance, runtime monitoring and supervisor agents are becoming a named category that large buyers will ask about.
- What to focus on
- What Project Perception’s insider controls look like in practice, and whether model providers expose more reasoning data to security tools.
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Huntington Bank launches The 1866 Studio with Google Cloud
- What happened
- The Huntington National Bank announced The 1866 Studio, an AI-powered operating system for small businesses built with Gemini platform, Google Cloud’s AI platform. Huntington says its first agentic workflows cover business launch steps such as entity selection, registration and licensing, marketing and ad copy generated with Gemini models, and loan-readiness checks that flag gaps and explain lender expectations. Early access opened on October 19 and is not limited to Huntington customers.
- Why it matters
- It is a concrete example of a regional bank putting agents in front of customers rather than only using them internally. Huntington describes itself as a $284 billion asset bank holding company with over 1,400 branches in 21 states.
- Enterprise impact
- Financial services firms can watch how Huntington governs agent advice on financing, since the product sits close to lending decisions.
- Startup impact
- Small-business software vendors now compete with a bank-backed, free-to-try operating system that bundles guidance, marketing and financing help.
- What to focus on
- How broadly early access rolls out and which workflows move beyond advice into actions.
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Worth a Glance
Tenstorrent raises a $1.5B Series E
Tenstorrent says Trace Capital and Innovation X led the round at a $6.2 billion post-money valuation, and that it will use the money to deploy Galaxy servers at scale and advance the RISC-V CPU and AI core IP it licenses.
Tenstorrent(opens in a new tab)MiniMax rolls out M3.1 Flash
MiniMax says the model reaches 73.7% on DeepSWE v1.1 and 61.7 on OSWorld V2, costs 70% less than its predecessor for agentic tasks, and is available through the MiniMax API, M Plan and MiniMax Code, with weights to come later.
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One Thing Not to Miss Today
Agents need supervisors too
Microsoft’s warning and Huntington’s launch point the same way: agents are moving into real workflows, and every one needs an identity, limited permissions and a record of what it did.